I want a typewriter with the Dvorak layout, but they're as rare as hens' teeth.
There's a place that converts typewriters, but only Selectrics. They're excellent typewriters, but my goal is a manual over an electric. Besides, nearly $1,000 for purchase, conversion, and shipping is quite an investment.
A Blickensderfer with the non-qwerty Blick keyboard would also be nice if it's in good enough condition to be a weekly workhorse.
I spent 15 years trying to touch-type Sholes (qwerty), and I almost can, but I never got above 20 wpm. It's been 15 years since I switched to touch-typing Dvorak, and my speed is well over 40 wpm on an absolutely terrible, error-prone day now.
I got excited and found what looked like a candidate manual typewriter for easy conversion to any layout imaginable, the Sears Easy Touch from the mid-'60s. The slugs just slide right on and off. Then I saw its price and a typing sample showing off its build quality. Shame.
http://type-writer.org/?p=3417
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Move over, Remy, I just found the COOL typewriter! :V https://computerfairi.es/media/CAUNrsVL_O8EITN_llY
What's the cute animal that makes clacky-clacky sounds when you stroke it? :3
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